Category Archives: OP-ED

At the midnight launch for Smash last November, my friend who manages the local game shop jokingly asked if I wanted one of each Amiibo to go along with my copy of Smash for Wii U. Just to be funny I bought a Wii Fit trainer and a Fox Amiibo and called it good. Then my fiancee hooked me up with Mario, Peach, and Donkey Kong Amiibos for Christmas and all of the sudden I had five of the first wave of tweleve. From then a sickness developed in my head and I decided that I had to have them all.

2015 is going to be a semi busy year for me in gaming. This is my must play list, not everything is confirmed for this year but most of it is and the other bit I have a good feeling about. I listed where I plan on playing them also for reference, although many of these titles will show up on multiple platforms. Mighty No 9 (Wii U): What happens when Megaman’s creator gets to make a Megaman game that is part not Megaman and also part Megaman? We’re about to find out this year. This kickstarted project has the makings to

I’ve been fighting the console wars for the past 25 years. I started out a Nintendo kid, a child soldier fighting in a war I didn’t even know existed at the time. The Sega marketing machine changed my allegiance in the early 90s and I was the proud owner of a Genesis, Mortal Kombat blood was red not grey (well after the blood code was entered anyways) and Sega was doing what Nintendon’t. Then the era of N64 brought me back home, all on the promise of a game called Super Mario 64, but I dabbled with the new kid

I was an avid gamer back then. Really just hitting my gaming prime. The Fall of 98′ was when Pokémon-mania swept into the US. I had an ice blue Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Pokémon Red that set me out on my very first adventure from Pallet Town. My neighborhood friend had a copy of Pokémon Blue and together we were going to “catch em’ all” for the very first time. Before I knew it I was waking up at 6 AM to catch the anime before school on the local FOX affiliate, then the next year I would